Much like the NCAA, there is a certain hypocrisy to being a news broadcasting entity like ESPN reporting controversial information on a league that you broadcast. Eventually, the league is going to tell you to back off, and you’re going to do it. The latest instance was reported in The New York Times this week. […]

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I’ve been away for awhile and haven’t had the opportunity to write about some of the important stories that have occurred while I’ve been gone, but it is long past time to deal with them now. Major League Baseball threw the book at several players implicated in the Biogenesis/PED scandal, with the biggest suspension being […]

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One of the criticism people (including me) have for Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is the blind eye they turned on PED use, especially in the years after labor strife caused the cancellation of an entire season. Desperate to get fannies back in seats, the owners and the league were happy to see steroid laden mammoths […]

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It appears that the wings of change are blowing through big time college football. Some of these winds may be a typhoon. Big conferences are discussing paying stipends to athletes, and that and other issues have the big conferences like the Big 12 and Big Ten threatening to break from the NCAA, or at least […]

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Chicago Bears training camp opens this week, and, like all things related to the Bears around here, a pronouncement from General Manager Phil Emery is getting lots of attention in the media. Emery stated that the club was at the NFL salary cap for this season, and he would not negotiate contract extensions for any […]

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That is the common refrain of the career criminal and most kids – I’ve got the game figured out; I can do what I want and get away with it. Of course, most of these people do eventually get caught (or killed in the case of criminals). However, most people grow up and out of […]

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In the same week that MLB Commissioner Bud “Head In The Sand” Selig announced that baseball was “cleaner than it has ever been,” rumors abound around the next round of suspensions for use of performance enhancing drugs. Everyone has been waiting for the shoe to drop in the form of suspensions for the 20 or […]

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